. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . full every day in the year andyet never drunk. Then there is the stingy, close-listedman, whose entire philosophy lies withinthe precincts of the multiplication-tableHe never has an article of clothing thatfits him ; forwhen he wants a coat, or a any other article of clothing, he fre-quents the ready-made shops and buys thelargest garment he can get for the ; that he may have a big pennyworth, lie his moneys worth may be able to drink any given quantity, of clothes. , , , . , , , , . but seldom gets drunk, tor his tempe


. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . full every day in the year andyet never drunk. Then there is the stingy, close-listedman, whose entire philosophy lies withinthe precincts of the multiplication-tableHe never has an article of clothing thatfits him ; forwhen he wants a coat, or a any other article of clothing, he fre-quents the ready-made shops and buys thelargest garment he can get for the ; that he may have a big pennyworth, lie his moneys worth may be able to drink any given quantity, of clothes. , , , . , , , , . but seldom gets drunk, tor his tempera-ment prevents his parting with his money; his love of that isstronger than any love of the drink can be in him. The third is the young man full of fire and poetry andmusic, of a nervous temperament, easily excited, loud ofsociety, the life of the company, the admiration of his com-panions. He can sing a song, and sing it well: tell a goodstory, ami his eye Hashes as he makes the point to it. liewill become a drunkard more readily than the two BLIGHTED HOPES. 427 When he drinks, he enters the outer circle of the whirl-pool ; round and round he wheels, swifter and swifter,narrower and narrower, until, at length, he is drawn into theawful vortex. It is often remarked that there is a famine of great men inour day. What is one of the causes? They are cut downin their youth by drunkenness in thousands. Behold thatyouth at college, the leader of his class, the pride of his tutor,the joy of his parents, the one likely to become the ornamentof his au;e. Strong drink has taken hold of him and done itsdireful work, administered at first, it may be, by the hand offriendship and of kindness. Awfully fatal and mistaken areall such expressions of friendship and of kindness. We askthat mother what has become of her boy. Behold her boweddown with grief, her countenance the picture of disappointedexpectation; your question receives no answer but a vacantlook of despair; her heart is


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